Answer to problem 5.10 should read (a) 426.8 mg (b) 408.7 mg (c) 2.12 hr.
Problem 7.3: Neither power exists, since \(A\) is not square.
Problem 7.8: Indices are \(t\), not \(n\), as in first term of first equation.
Problem 9.7(b): It does not follow from the equations \(A^3=2A\) and \(A^4=2A^2\) that the population doubles every month. It does follow that, from the second 2-week period onward, the population doubles every four weeks.
Problem 13.14: There are two issues. The first is that it is not clear from the diagram whether the genotype of the male in the first generation of the pedigree is DD or Dd, or even dd, as one might guess from the preceding problem. The second issue is that, regardless of the first issue, the answer given in the back of the book is incorrect. In particular, since the genotypes of Mary’s children are independent only conditional on Mary’s genotype, the correct answer for part (b) should be either 13/16, 5/8, or 0 according to whether the male in the first generation is Dd, DD, or dd, respectively. The answer as given appears to assume that the genotypes of Mary’s children are fully independent, which of course is nonsense.
Problem 14.10 should read: In a given population, only the A and B alleles are present in the blood; there are no individuals with type O blood or with O alleles in this particular population. A sample of 200 people is taken from this population and their blood type is determined. If the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the frequency of A allele and what are the expected numbers of people in the sample with type AB and type B blood?
Problem 18.1(c): The correct answer is not as given in the back of the book.
Problem 18.3(a): The correct answer is not as given in the back of the book.